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Posted on 07/28/2025 9:41:02 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Las Vegas is experiencing a notable downturn in tourism, with hotel occupancy, visitor numbers and spending all slipping.
Industry data points to several key reasons behind the shift, including rising costs, fewer international travellers, and broader economic uncertainties.
Drop in international visitors and hotel occupancy
According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, hotel occupancy dropped to just 66.7% in early July—a sharp fall from the previous year—and international visitors.
Domestic arrivals also fell by around 6.5%, and traffic through Harry Reid International Airport declined nearly 4% overall.
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Nashville has gone downhill a bit, but even so, I much prefer it to Vegas.
____My approach was I had $50, and either I would lose that, or go home with $200 and walk away. ____
Yep. Try get so it’s house money. Of course when I went with my girlfried, we were in Seniors in high school. So it was more like $5 on a red or black. We never got kicked out too. The mob was cool.....
Waste of money as the House always wins..
Vegas needs a competitor. Atlantic City would be good but they need to fix the place up. It's a dump. But the potential is there.
If they clean it up and they market themselves as the "affordable option" to Vegas, they would be in a great position to make a comeback.
____The “Stardust Line” with Lee Pete!___
Lido De Paris! And always the year next to it. I even remember the side door we entered into the Stardust. I believe East side next to another cheaper motel where we would stay.
Holy Crap!
I just checked Binion’s menu pricing today:
https://www.binions.com/pdf/dining/steak_house_menu.pdf
16 oz Ribeye $72, 10 oz filet $86
Wow, what a deal (NOT) !
Go to Danville Va. They are trying right now and it may not last long before the Democrats turn it into a crime center.
Yeah...my mom always stayed at the MGM Grand. We stayed at the Marina and went to the stardust to gamble. Both had serious mob connections. I wonder if my girlfriend’s dad had a mob connection. He was a doctor and had a gambling issue. Got over it though..
It’s a dump, compared to the good ‘ol days, when it was for adults and not slobs.
I actually remember sitting in the stardust circa mid 70s and hearing over the speakers....”Telly Savalas, call the hotel operator, Telly Savalas call the hotel operator”
I never forgot that. Johnny Carson played at the Riviera a lot as I recall.
I spent a lot of time in Vegas in the 60s and 70s. Last time I was there was after I got out of the Army in the early 90s. It was NOT Las Vegas anymore. Somebody turned it into a cross between New Yawk and Disneyland. Haven’t been back since. Saw Elvis at the International in August 1969 and again in February 1970. Paid a $7.50 cover charge to get in. When I was running the Colorado River, I used to park in front of the Golden Nugget and sit in the lounge watching the Dave Bunker show all night. Vegas isn’t what it once was. It’s not even close.
I used to love Las Vegas. They hosted the National Association of Broadcasters convention, NAB, and it was my favorite time of year, back in the early 90’s. The food was wonderful, cabs were easily available so we never walked and the hotels were great fun. Usually broke even with my limited gambling but it was worth every penny when I didn’t.
Computerized video editing was just growing up so I was interviewing projects for a white paper that made the rounds. Saw the Star Trek crew inducted into the NAB Hall of Fame. Must have been the only fan there. And downloaded a video package from the hotel TV system when Reagan’s glass eagle statue was broken by a nutcase.
Reagan’s NAB Glass Award Broken - Apr 1992
https://youtu.be/dczSyaaGlv0
NAB Hall of Fame - Star Trek, Larry King, Don Rickles - Raw Footage - 1992
raw footage of the cast chewing and all the speeches
https://youtu.be/uyOkPr-XHEo
NAB TV Packages - Non-Linear Editors - Apr 1992
https://youtu.be/nzdBiZlbuLY
What really killed Atlantic City was Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in CT.
Those two casinos are nice, clean, safe, great golf courses and good entertainment. Plus they are an easy drive up 95 from NYC. As opposed to AC that is a DUMP and you are risking your life if you step off of Boardwalk.
Good Casinos just over the border in Oklahoma, so a lot of DFW people go there.
It isn’t just Vegas and Disney. Nearly all travel has gone through the roof.
It is worse in blue cities, but bad just about everywhere.
I think COVID changed a lot of people’s psyche about a lot of things. I think there are three:
All jobs must support a family - This lie from the left ignores what used to be a large pool of workers who were happy to work part time and low wages, like teenagers, college students, and housewives. This goes hand in hand with the social mind virus that living with your parents and/or having roommates is unacceptable and that there is no such thing as a starter job.
There must me a work/life balance - This has turned into “I don’t want to work very hard and I should still make a lot of money.” As a businessman, I can tell you that the expectations of applicants is WAAAY out of step with reality. We need an embroidery machine operator. We are willing to train, but getting someone with some experience would be nice. Anyone with any experience wants to start at $50K a year and people with no experience want $40K a year. We are in New Mexico...not New York.
Another one is the view that teenagers working is evil. This attitude is all over social media. The little darlings are too delicate to work and it takes them away from their studies. It also takes a job away from an adult who needs it to feed their family. They don’t get that the job isn’t worth enough to feed a family and if you try to force the issue, you get replaced by kiosks.
Anyway, I think the inflated labor market is to blame for these travel ills. In many of these cities they pretty much doubled (or more) the minimum wage, which drives up ALL wages, without a reciprocal rise in quality or productivity, leading to expensive hotels and restaurants that people can’t really afford.
The mob’s operation evolved around the skim. Less reported income, less tax but cash made its way to the hidden owners. Interesting fact, who was in charge
Of the state gaming commission during part of time the organization ran most of the casinos? Harry Reid. View the movie casino. The front man for the mob played by Deniro, has a run in with him. Coincidence? Hardly.
The group that ran the mob out: Howard Hughes, government enforcement, and old age of the mobsters.
True story. Back in mid 60’s, some thug union in NJ ran a junket to LV through a mob travel agent who gave out the casinos line of credit just for the asking. Some ran up gambling debt beyond their yearly pay. When they got back to NJ they told the travel agent gambling debts were not LEGALLY collectible in NJ, so they were not paying. Those deadbeats soon got visits from Vito, Rocco, Louisville Slugger who acquainted them with debt collection remedies including the 2% vig. They all repaid without any major medical costs.
Laughlin used to depend on Phoenix customers..it was closer than Vegas. Now there are over a dozen Tribal-run casinos in or within short driving distance of the Phoenix area-some as upscale as Vegas. And you don’t have to deal with the traffic on “Bloody 93”.
When gambling was legalized locally, there was one less reason to go to Vegas.
BTW. You can carry your drink, or drink on the Riverwalk in Laughlin.
But, it has to be in a “to go” container. Disposable cup...plastic.
They dont want broken glass or cans floating down the river.
We sometimes go out on the walk late afternoon/night after it cools off.
Not many people out there and its relaxing.
Would add one more thing...Rap-crappers banging it out on the Strip. Not an altogether bad thing, just wish they’d go out in the desert and not endanger the lives of innocents.
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